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efilife on July 14, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualize...

this is not a political statement, the author's gender is just known so there's no reason to use they

jakeydus on July 15, 2025 [–]

> If gender is unknown or irrelevant to the sentence, then they is completely grammatically correct.

Emphasis on the relevancy.

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